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PISHI

Xena's gone

There is something just so unthinkably horrible about the silence, the vacuum, the hole in the world of those left behind wondering

15-Sep-2007 (13 comments)
One day three weeks ago our favorite cat disappeared. She was the most beautiful cat we have ever owned. She was smaller than a full size cat but she had a very leonine profile, grey with black tiger stripes, a bushy tail and yellow eyes. She could do a higher standing jump than any creature I have ever seen. She could launch from the ground to the roof of our house or a neighbor’s house in a single bound. At night I could hear the wooden gate rattling outside my bedroom window when she would jump up on it... that is the only sound she would make as she stalked through the night but it was enough to let me know that she was there. She spent a great deal of her time high above the ground walking along fence tops or roofs in the darkness and shadows like a Ninja.>>>
sahandshams
15-Sep-2007
آزادی هاله اسفندیاری می تواند نشان از آن باشد که دولت ایران علیرغم موضع گیری های تند نسبت به امریکا و بی پروایی از رویارویی نظامی با آمریکا ترسی واقعی از شدّت گرفتن تنشها با غرب دارد چرا که پیشتر نیز در زمان دستگیری ملوانان بریتانیایی در آبهای خلیج فارس با تهدیدات تلویحی تونی بلر، نظامیان انگلیسی به بهانه رافت اسلامی بی هیچ هزینه ای آزاد و روانه کشورهای خود شدند . >>>

HUMOR

 پس از شنیدن صدای بوق

...و پیام های زیر ...پیغام بگذارید

15-Sep-2007 (9 comments)
پیغام گیر شاملو :

بر آبگینه ای از جیوه ء سکوت
سنگواره ای از دستان آدمی
تا آتشی و چرخی که آفرید
تا کلید واژه ای از دور شنوا
در آن با من سخن بگو
که با همان جوابی گویمت
آنگاه که توانستن سرودی است
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HBPM1
14-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
A quick and not-so-dirty guide to purchasing environmentally friendly commercial floor coverings products: To those of you looking to change the commercial carpeting in your place of business while seeking to reduce the environmental impact of that purchase, I have the following recommendation: Shaw Industries, one of the largest carpet manufacturers in the world, has a program which markets product under the "Shaw Green Edge" label. Seek this label, and under that label ask to see carpet tile (as opposed to carpet broadloom) making sure that the word "Eco-Worx" is tied to that carpet tile. >>>

PEOPLE

Eat, drink & khosh baash

Eat, drink & khosh baash

Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, northern California

by kfravon
14-Sep-2007 (one comment)

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VIEW

... and The End of Iraq

14-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
It is now painfully obvious that U.S. administration has given up on any chance of the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds ever burrying the hatchet(s) and settling in peace under the unbrella of one country (Iraq). Sadly, this may be the only viable way forward. Just as it was the case in the Balkans, the roots of hatred and mistrust go too deep to ever be resolved peacefully. This is not, however, a new option for Iraq. Many politicians, generals and pondits, including the Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, have advocated the "partitioning" of Iraq along the secterian and ethnic lines.>>>

ART

Endless meaning

Endless meaning

Hadi Tabatabai's show, San Francisco

by Jahanshah Javid
14-Sep-2007 (one comment)

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alitabesh
14-Sep-2007 (27 comments)

Please sign the peition below.

//www.petitiononline.com/Iran110/petition.html

Also please write a protest letter (be vey professional) to the Editor of the newspaper.

gsheller@dispatch.com, michael.ramirez@investors.com
See the letter from Professor Marsha Cohen in Miami. >>>
Business Manager
14-Sep-2007

Ever wonder where our readers come from?

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BOOK

Common grounds

Israelis and Iranians hold an exaggerated and almost mythical view of each other

14-Sep-2007 (7 comments)
As similar as Israelis and Iranians are, recent Iranian immigrants to Israel experience difficulty in overcoming the cultural shock. The contrast between the traditional values of Iranian society and the liberal currents of Israeli society -- defined by the norms and culture of its European immigrants rather than by its Middle Eastern geography--could not be greater. I once had a conversation with an elderly Iranian Jew whom I sat next to during the bus ride from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Ehsaq (Isaac), as he was called, spared no love for the clerics in Tehran, but he liked to reminisce about the country in which he had spent most of his life. >>>

POLITICS

Neo-coms

Why former communists are attracted to the IRI

14-Sep-2007 (11 comments)
Of all the alternatives that are out there the one that has a special attraction to some diehard Communists-who by the way mostly like to be called Socialist nowadays- is of all things, militant Islam in general, and its poster boy Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) version of it in particular. Just to give some evidentiary weight to this proposition lets take the old axiom of birds of a feather flock together as a road map and see where it leads to. Students of Communism’s history know well that one of the initially widely appreciated arguments of that nascent ideology was its antagonism towards capitalism and the despicable exploitation of the workers, proletariats in Communist lingo, which in varying degree is part and parcel of it.>>>

QUESTION

آه، کلادیوسِ ایرانی، کجایی؟!

وقتی کالیگولا به قتل رسید، سربازان "کلادیوس" را به عنوان بهترین گزینه برای حکومت در نظر گرفتند

14-Sep-2007 (4 comments)
هنگام خواندن صفحات زرین زندگی کالیگولا، بعضی تشبهاتِ او و دکترِ عزیزمان احمدی نژاد، توجه ام را جلب نمود! هر دو مدت زمانی را در ارتش (سپاه) گذراندند. هر دو در آغاز قدرت، قول رفاه و عدالت دادند. هر دو در آغاز سخاوتمندی بسیاری (به خصوص به نیروهای نظامی) نشان دادند. هر دو بعد از مدت کوتاهی، نشانه هایی از ضعف و عدم تعادل روانی نشان دادند (اعمالی که به سادگی قابلِ توجیهِ منطقی نبود)! و بالاخره، به نظر می رسد که احمدی نژاد جان هم، مثل کالیگولا، فقط چهار سال در قدرت بماند! جالب تر از همه اینکه، احمدی نژاد هم در تلاش دادن درجۀ کنسول به اسبهاست >>>

POETRY

لبخند
14-Sep-2007
گاهی هجوم صبح
گاهی میان حادثه  
گاهی من از فرط این همه راه
گاهی کنار ویرانه های گلدان
گاهی کنار چشمه های عسل
...
هنوز می بینم
کمی ترانه در باغ روییده است >>>

POETRY

دفتر شعرم گاهواره نام توست
14-Sep-2007 (one comment)
جاری ام
هرروز
از ارتفاع شیدایی
با نور آفتاب
بر شانه ی دیوار خانه ات
نشسته ام
به تماشای بوی سیب >>>

IDEAS

Despotism, colonialism, federalism, and...

... now tribalism!

14-Sep-2007 (one comment)
Anyone who has a child knows that you can never make a 4 year old do anything they don't want to. The best you can hope for is that they stop just long enough, to notice the example you have to set for them. So goes the war in Iraq now in it's 4th full year. Rather than set a proper example for this 4 year old 3rd world child to follow, the US and the greater Western 1st world is guilty of nothing short of child abuse and endangerment.>>>